Java Jobs in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Croydon requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 2 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 38 50 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 21.97% 26.46% 17.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.72% 64.94% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 0 24 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £24,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 67 77 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 38.73% 40.74% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9 47 35
10th Percentile £31,600 £24,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £43,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £58,750 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,000 - £86,500
South London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +20.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Croydon

Java
Salary Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Croydon.

Salary trend for Java in Croydon

Java
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Coulsdon - 1 - - 1
Kenley - 1 - -
South Croydon - 1 - - 1
Thornton Heath - 1 - -
Java
South London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (31.58%) JBoss
1 12 (31.58%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (13.16%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (86.84%) Amazon ECS
2 33 (86.84%) Amazon EKS
2 33 (86.84%) Serverless
3 17 (44.74%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.53%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.63%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (97.37%) Relational Database
2 34 (89.47%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (52.63%) RDBMS
4 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 34 (89.47%) Jenkins
2 31 (81.58%) JUnit
3 18 (47.37%) Git
4 17 (44.74%) Mockito
5 16 (42.11%) JMeter
6 4 (10.53%) Jaeger
7 1 (2.63%) DbUnit
7 1 (2.63%) jMock
7 1 (2.63%) Maven
7 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (76.32%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (86.84%) Developer
1 33 (86.84%) Java Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
3 4 (10.53%) Team Leader
4 2 (5.26%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Senior
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (89.47%) REST
1 34 (89.47%) Spring
1 34 (89.47%) Web Services
2 33 (86.84%) Spring Boot
3 28 (73.68%) Apache Camel
4 17 (44.74%) ActiveMQ
4 17 (44.74%) Hibernate
5 16 (42.11%) HTML
5 16 (42.11%) jQuery
5 16 (42.11%) WireMock
6 13 (34.21%) RESTful
6 13 (34.21%) SOAP
7 12 (31.58%) J2EE
8 9 (23.68%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (23.68%) JSON
8 9 (23.68%) XML
9 5 (13.16%) Kafka
9 5 (13.16%) Mustache
9 5 (13.16%) Node.js
9 5 (13.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (89.47%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
1 4 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Agile
2 34 (89.47%) Microservices
2 34 (89.47%) TDD
3 29 (76.32%) BDD
4 25 (65.79%) Scrum
5 21 (55.26%) CI/CD
6 20 (52.63%) Kanban
7 16 (42.11%) DevOps
7 16 (42.11%) Process Management
7 16 (42.11%) Workflow
8 15 (39.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (18.42%) Architectural Design
9 7 (18.42%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (15.79%) SDLC
11 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
12 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
12 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
12 4 (10.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) JavaScript
2 20 (52.63%) Python
3 16 (42.11%) Shell Script
4 4 (10.53%) Bash
4 4 (10.53%) Go
5 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (97.37%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 37 (97.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (42.11%) Ansible
2 16 (42.11%) Kibana
3 4 (10.53%) Argo
3 4 (10.53%) Kustomize
3 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
3 4 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) Dynatrace
1 16 (42.11%) Splunk
2 4 (10.53%) Google